Seems like if ya have to something from another truck or passenger car could be made to work, or repair that one with parts. Got any pics of the innards?

C-600 VIN
 

Sorry I found this thread after I already started one. Tried deleting and reposting but kept screwing something up.


https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...te-decode.html

Do you have a list of the trans codes for the 72 F750? My vin is F75EVP31805 but can't get to the codes on the door at the moment.

Truck has a 2speed rear end and is supposed to have a 5speed trans but I can't get into 5th gear. There seems to be a 5th gear up towards the dash between 3 and R, I can get the shifter into that spot with the motor off but I can't get into that gear going down the highway. Tried double clutching, rear in LO and HI going into 5th and I just can't get it. Across the top of the pattern is 1-3-5(maybe?)-R and across the bottom is 2 and 4.

It's been a long time since I've posted on here, hope everyone is well. Thanks.

That don't sound right....this is a Chev site reference, but a Clark is a Clark etc when we are talking these transmissions. Some differences are there, but afaik, not the shift patterns.

The Transmission Page

I don't see my shift pattern on there. I haven't been under the truck yet. Right now I am at a hotel in Oregon waiting for my Dad to drive home to Snohomish, WA and get his 5axle KW dumptruck and a tilt top trailer to get this truck home. Was running great from Coos Bay to Cottage Grove last night but in the hour and a half of driving today the radiator cracked at the filler neck and I think I have some debris in the gas tanks that stirred around and into the carb and fuel filters. 50mph in my highest gear is about 3000rpm right now.

Trans code D in the 72 F750

If you put the trans in that gear with the motor off, then fire it up, what happens when you ease out the clutch? If you have a gear there, it should move the truck a little before it stalls out if it's 5th.

I was thinking along the same lines. Getting on top of a hill, stop, kill the motor, put it in the phantom 5th gear with the clutch in and start the motor and get rolling and see what it does when I let the clutch out. But I'll try your idea first, less chance of breaking stuff.

The NP435 in my 76 F250 4x4 has a spot all the way to the right and up next to 3rd that'll hold the shifter there, but there's no gear. This might be the same sorta deal.

F75 = F750.

E = 361 2V FT engine.

V = Kentucky Truck Assembly Plant.

P31805 = 1972.

TRANS D = Clark model 387-V 5 Speed Direct.

Snohomish WA = The antique mall capital of the PNW

Thanks for the help Bill. Now to do some research on that tranny.

I made it to Seattle, truck was running great from Vancouver to Seattle. Just before going through Seattle on I-5 I lost air pressure and pulled over before I lost brakes. The belt driven air compressor broke off of the mount and fell down against the frame. Had a 3axle KW tow truck haul it home (the fastest that F750 has ever gone).

Trim Tag Decoding
 

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If you have time can you decode this for me.

Thanks, Mike

Bill, Im going to take a long shot here since I do not have any idea on year or part numbers. A friend gave me two shock brackets for the rear axel on a Ford Truck. They were wired together, which to him verified they were a pair of shock mounts off a rear axel of a Ford Truck. They are they style that bolt to the bottom of the U Bolts mounting the leaf springs to the frame rails. Each bracket has a shock mount stud. Problem is they are both identical, which suggests (to me), they are both for the same side. He believes they are a matched pair, one for the drivers side and one for the passenger side. If he is correct, this would mount one shock in front of the axel and the opposite shock behind the axel. Have you or anyone else reading this post ever saw this application of the rear shocks using the UBolt shock mounts?

New To Me 68 F700
 

Hello, I was hoping to find some help here as far as decoding the vin tag on my latest find. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance. The tag reads-
F70DUC59735
132 J F703 4 81 M G3D
24000 164 3800 334098

F70 = F700.

D = 330 2V H/D FT engine.

U = Louisville KY Assembly Plant.

C59735 = 1968, assembled December 1967.

132" Wheelbase.

J = Rangoon Red.

F703 = F700, 24,000 lbs. GVWR

481: 4 = Charcoal Black Crush Vinyl & Charcoal Black Ladder Pattern Vinyl / 81 = 81A Standard Cab.

M = Clark model 285V 5 Speed Direct.

G3D: G3 = Eaton model 16802 Two Speed Rear Axle / 6.50/9.04 / 17,000 lbs. Rear Axle Capacity.

D = Ford Rockwell-Timken 7,000 lbs. Capacity Front Axle.

24,000 lbs. Gross Vehicle Weight Rating.

164 net HP @ 3,800 RPM

334098:

33 = Detroit MI Ford District Sales Office, where the original selling dealer ordered the truck from.

4098 = Domestic Special Order number, truck ordered special by original purchaser, not "bought off the lot."